Regardless you are the new possessor of a Nissan Sentra, have been lent one, or have leased one, you may not yet know all the specs of this motor vehicle. This is precisely the subject of this short post, we will help you to accomplish a common but useful task on 3-door cars in order to travel with more than 2 people. That’s why we are going to explain you how to fold a front seat on a Nissan Sentra, for that, first of all, we are going to take a look at the different adjustments of the front seat of your motor vehicle, and, in a second part, the different techniques to fold the front seat of a Nissan Sentra..

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The different front seat adjustments of an Nissan Sentra

To begin, we’ll start our short post by explaining the different settings existing on the front seat of a Nissan Sentra. Indeed, even if you want to fold one of your front seats on your car, you should know that based on the model of your car and its finish you will have access to different adjustments, here are a good number of the settings you will find on your Nissan Sentra:

  • Fundamental and fundamental adjustment for driving without taking risks, this configuration settings of the front seat of your Nissan Sentra enables you to adapt the distance of the seat to the pedals in order to adapt to the size of each person’s legs.
  • This setting enables you to have a better perspective of the road, for small people we typically raise the seat and for tall people to lower it.
  • Finally, the last “classic” setting is the seat inclination, not to be confused with the control to fold the seat of a Nissan Sentra, this setting will allow you, determined by the length of your arms, to have an ideal driving posture without tiring to reach the controls
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  • The lumbar support: On some series, you will even be able to adjust the lumbar support provided by your seat by pressing down on the backrest, a very pleasant adjustment for long trips.

How do you fold the front seat down from a Nissan Sentra?

After identifying all the seat settings, we will now assist you to fold down the front seat of your Nissan Sentra. Please bear in mind that according to the number of doors on your car the operation will not be the same. Whether you want to fold down a front seat to carry a passenger on a 3-door Nissan Sentra, or whether you want to fold it down to transport large items on a 5-door Nissan Sentra, it will not be the same approach, here are the different ways to do it

Fold down the front seat of a 3-door Nissan Sentra.

As we told you ahead of, whether it’s to get a person in the back seat, or to carry large items, knowing how to fold the front seat down from its Nissan Sentra is useful. This technique is quite common, and according to the year of your Nissan Sentra the lever to fold down the front seat can be in different locations, here are the 3 possible places for this command:

  • At the top of the seat back near the headrest
  • On the side of the seat in most cases in the middle of the backrest
  • On the side of the seat in the middle of the seat

Pushing this lever will completely fold down the front seat back of your Nissan Sentra and free the seat from its location on the rail that allows you to move the seat forward or backward, this will allow you to save even more space for an easy passenger in the rear.

Folding down the front seat of a 5-door Nissan Sentra

As for folding the front seat of a Nissan Sentra 5-door, the process is not similar because since it is not designed to receive rear passengers through the front doors, your seats don’t have the same features we just talked about earlier on. Folding the front seat of a 5-door Nissan Sentra will generally only be useful if you want to carry bulky things. To do this, you’ll need to use the recline control to fold your seats. Depending on the year of your car, it can be in the form of a knob to turn, or a lever to operate to choose the inclination of your car. If you don’t have enough volume and want to fold the rear seat of your Nissan Sentra, don’t hesitate to read our short post dedicated to this manipulation.

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